Assyrian army

Assyrian army
Showing posts with label Khitai. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Khitai. Show all posts

Friday, 17 April 2015

Khitai starter?

One of the things I'm doing is looking at some of my older figures. I came across this long-forgotten group from the 90s. Can't find out who made them - I'd assumed RAFM (Wanders and Warriors Range), but can't find them in the RAFM catalogue, second choice Grenadier but again no luck on my search.

Meanwhile, nicely Oriental, so although not really wizardish I think, with a suitable altar and a bit of touching up paintwork, might do the job as a wizard's grouping.



The downside of looking through the catalogues was 'want it.... want it.... want it....

It also gives me an incentive to find and catalogue a few more of these - I've  got all of the above RAFM range somewhere, the knight with the winged helmet in set 3809 looks quite spectacular. Also, must finish painting  the Chariot of the Apocalypse from the Demons of Darkness range...





Tuesday, 3 March 2015

Goblins...Elves...Khitai...

Whatever.

The Garrison High Goblin riding a lizard is like the Wraithe - begging to be put on a horse. OK, LotR/GM would have Goblins painted green and riding wolves - mine are flesh coloured and I don't see why they shouldn't be on horses.

But then, the figure will also do quite well as a High Elf cavalryman. If I wanted to go commercial I would probably do a bit of carving on the helmet and give it a new shield but for me it's OK as it stands. The Oriental look, of course, means it would stand in well as a Hyborian Khitai. The problem with that is the number needed. Only one figure on the mould because it's not really feasible to make a new mould just for this and a Khitai HoTT army would need quite a few of them. Still, it's a thought. Then again, do I really need anothe all-Rider HoTT army?

Probably, and it's a nice figure.

 This original version was cast and painted soon after I bought Garrison, so it's about 8 years old. I had intended an Orc/Goblin army then, it's taken a while to get back to it.


 I quite like the bat motif on the shield, not sure how appropriate it would be for Elves or Khitai, but then - it's fantasy anyway.

 Finally, can't stop messing about... so stuck some wings on three of the lizards... still being painted, hopefully the final product will look better than the current version.